mounting a colt coral frag

[coralman]

how do you mount a colt coral frag? i have heard several different methods but witch is best?

[scubadude]

Hi Coralman

IME they do not take well unless you let them kinda roam freely and mount themselves. You can get a big piece of PVC pipe and put in the bottom of your tank with BIG pieces of gravel and make sure the PVC is not in a high current area (very low current is good) and eventually the colt will attach to a couple big pieces of gravel and you can glue those pieces of gravel onto your plug You can actually superglue the colt to the plug if you want but I can almost guarantee that it will come off!! I had to find out for myself but its true....the colt is very stubborn when it comes to mounting HTH

[Reinhold]

I've had good luck using the clear plastic pony tail holders in my daughter's room. I use the band to hold the colt frag onto a small piece of LR. It works best if you tie it down in a notch in the rock in the "V" between two branches.

The photo is of a 3rd generation frag, all cut since February, 2001.

[GreenLincoln]

I love colts, so I have tried every method out there for attaching them. They slime like no tomorrow, so superglue will not work, neither does loosely "sewing" them onto rocks or piercing them with a toothpic and rubberbanding. There are only two methods I have found that work. Either use a piece of bridal veil and securely wrap the base of the frag around a rock, or leave the frag in a low flow area (like the above post in a large piece of PVC or like me, I put a floating breeder tank in my display tank to hold frags) and put a small rock ON TOP of the frag, and it will eventually attach itself to the rock. HTH

[wuelfman]

i need to learn to start fragging mine
mine grows like a mutant.it was about 4-5 big when i bought it (90 days or so) it hac increased 5 fold in size to about 8-9 inches tall
and around 16-18 in around
some one want to teach me and get a couple frags?(in the s.f bay)

[wuelfman]

i need to learn to start fragging mine
mine grows like a mutant.it was about 4-5 big when i bought it (90 days or so) it hac increased 5 fold in size to about 8-9 inches tall
and around 16-18 in around
some one want to teach me and get a couple frags?

[GreenLincoln]

You can try this method, but it didn't work for me. I tried it based on someone else's success with this method:

[dsb1829]

I think my preference for soft corals is leaning towardds the toothpick method. Just peirce the frag near the base with a toothpick and attach the toothpick with a rubberband to a small rubble rock. Give it 2-3 weeks and it will attach fine.